Improvement in velocipedes



J.-H. HAYNES.

V 9.1.0 cip e d e No. 98,592, F ,Pafented-Jang4, 1870;

'INVENTGR; d 16W HER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

MPEIERS PNOTD-LITHOGRAP WITNESSES.

4? JE ZW NITE STATES JOHN H. HAYNES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN VELOCIPEDES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 98,592, dated January 4, 1870.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN H. HAYNES, of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Vehicle,which I call a Velocimane; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the drawings annexed, with letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention is that of a threewheeled vehicle, for the locomotion of the operator, to be actuated by the hands and guided by the feet.

.In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the device. Fig. 2 is a view from the top. Fig. 3 is a partial view from the rear end, showing the bearing-wheels, with their pulleys, the main axle, and the rear side of the seat.

In the drawings, A A, Figs. 2 and 3, (A, Fig. 1,) are the bearing-wheels,which bear the main or seat axle B, Figs. 2 and 3. These wheels also bear, respectively, a grooved pulley, G 0, Figs. 2 and 3, (O,Fig.1,) called the wheel-pulleys. These are fastened to the wheels by three rivets,which pass, respectively, through three spokes of each wheel. (Two on each wheel are seen in Fig. 2, marked D D D D.)

Fastened to the upper side of the seat-axle, close to each wheel, respectively, as seen in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, are two bars of metal, E E, Figs. 2 and 3, called the frame-bars, which proceed, horizontally,'nearly to the periphery of the bearing-wheels, (see Fig. 1,) then incline downward at an angle of forty-five degrees, or thereabout, for nearly an equal distance, till they reach the level of the hub of the guide-wheel F, Figs. 1 and 2, and then proceed again, horizontally, to a point a short distance beyond the center of the guide-wheel. At the point where the frame-bars bend downward they are connected by a cross-bar, (seen in Fig. 2,) and beyond this cross-bar they are bent (at an angle of twenty-twodegrees, orthere- I about) toward each other, till the distance between them is about three-fifths of the original distance. Their ends are then bent into a curved shape, forming arcs of a circle whose center is the center, looking from above, (see Fig. 2,) of the guide-wheel. The rear end ofthe arc is completed by a spur on each frame-bar, constructedas seen in Fig. 2. Beneath these two arcs,respectively,lyingparallelwithandfirmly fastened to them,'are two devices, (one seen in Fig. 1,) best described as two horizontally slotted curved bars, of the same width,horizontally, and twice the thickness,vertically, with 2) prevent the shaft from penetrating on either side too far into the slots named.

At each side of the guidewheel are fastened, in the guide-wheel shaft, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) the two ends, respectively, of a roundbar, H

H, Fig. 2, (H, Fig. 1,) called the guidebar,

which passes, nearly horizontally, parallel with the wheel to beyond the rim of the same, the two portions of the bar there being bent to meet each other at the point I, Figs. 1 and 2, and then separating and forming a loop, J, Figs.

1 and. 2, called the guide-loop, which projects upward at a slight inclination backward from the perpendicular. Nearly at the bottom of the loop, and beneath it, are attached, to the under side of the guide-bar, two fiat bars, I and K,which make what 'I call the slide. These two bars of the slide pass downward, one on each side of a curved round bar, L, Figs. 1 and 2, called the slide bar, which bar extends from one frame-bar to the other, just behind the wheel, being firmly fastened to the frame-bars. The slide bears two pegs, (seen in Fig. 1,) passing through it in a direction parallel with the guidebar, one above and the other below the slide-bar. These serve to hold the slide to the slide-bar.

M, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is the seat of the oper ator. Its shape is seen in the drawings. It

its supported by two springs, N N, Fig. 3.

The manner in which these are curved is seen in Fig. 1. The lower ends of the springs are fastened to two bars, 0 0, Figs. 2 and 3, called the seat-bars, which pass diagonally from the center of the axle B to (respectively) the frame-bars E E.

O 0*, Fig. 2,(O Fig. 1,) are continuations of the seat-bars, which seat-bars, proceed up (perpendicularly when seen from the rear end of my device, and diagonally at nearly an angle of twenty-two degrees when seen from the side, as in Fig. l) a short distance, and at their 2 I eases ends bear, respectively, a grooved pulleywheel, PP,'Fig. 2, (P, Fig. 1,) called the driving-pulleys, which bear each a handle, Q Q, Fig. 2. These wheels 1? I? hear each a belt or cord, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) by which they are connected, respectively, with the wheel-pulleys O C. I sometimes have a slot in these driving pulleys,running radially, in which the handles QQslide, being secured bya nut on the other side, to increase or diminish the rotary play of the handles; and I sometimes have a plat- ,fOIlll behind, fitted to carry a valise.

Sometimes I substitute two npright rods for the guide-loop J. Sometimes I provide my vehicle with a brake or brakes on the drivingwheels or the guide-wheel. Sometimes I provide the seat with a high back. Sometimes I provide the slide-bar I with one or more notches, into which the upper peg of the slide I K enters and rests.

The operation of my device is as follows; The operator seats himself on the seat M, and resting one foot on the bar which connects the framebars E E, places the top of the other footintheguide-loopJ. Thentaking-hold.by each hand, of the driving-pulley handles'Q Q, he rotates these pulleys, so rotating the wheelpulleys G G, and thus rotating the drivingwheels. To change the direction of the velocimane, the foot in the guide-loop is moved sidewise to the right or left. This action is assisted, also, by checking the rotation of one driving-wheel and continuing the motion of the other, as they move independently. To

stop the vehicle entirely, it is necessary only to stop, by the hands, the rotation of the drivingipulleys, a reversal of the motion of which readily backs the vehicle.

\Vhat I claim herein as of my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The construction of the frame, being the axle B, the frame-bars E E, with their guidewheel bearing ends, the bar connecting the frame-bars, and the seat-bars O O, with their upright continuations, when in combination, all substantially as described.

2. The combination and arrangement of the guide-wheel and its frame, being the two curved slotted bars bearing the wheel, the slide-bar L, the guide ba'rs H H, the slide I K, and the guide-loop J, all substantially as and fitted for the purpose described.

3.. The combination and arrangement of the driving-pulleys P P, with the handles, the wheel-pulleys. and the guide-wheel F, when constructed and arranged substantially as described.

4. The combination and arrangement of the bearing-wheels A A, with their pulleys G O, the driving-pulleys P P, the seat M, the framebars E E, the guide-wheel F, the guide-bars V H H, and the slide-bar L, with its slide, all substantially as and fitted for the purpose described.

J. H. HAYNES. \Vitnesses:

LEMUEL P. J ENKs, ELLIOT L. BUTLER. 

